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From Emmy awarding-winning artist and director Lynette Wallworth, and an Artist-in-Residency at the Technicolor Experience Center, "Awavena."
Learn more: awavenavr.com
For the Amazonian Yawanawa, 'medicine' has the power to travel you in a vision to a place you have never been. Hushahu, the first woman shaman of the Yawanawa, uses VR like medicine to open a portal to another way of knowing. AWAVENA is a collaboration between a community and an artist, melding technology and transcendent experience so that a vision can be shared, and a story told of a people ascending from the edge of extinction.
From Emmy awarding-winning artist and director Lynette Wallworth, and an Artist-in-Residency at the Technicolor Experience Center, "Awavena."
Learn more: awavenavr.com
For the Amazonian Yawanawa, 'medicine' has the power to travel you in a vision to a place you have never been. Hushahu, the first woman shaman of the Yawanawa, uses VR like medicine to open a portal to another way of knowing. AWAVENA is a collaboration between a community and an artist, melding technology and transcendent experience so that a vision can be shared, and a story told of a people ascending from the edge of extinction.
